1. Commit to the industry: Chances are you didn’t grow up wanting to work in insurance, and you fell into it in the way most of us have, by accident. Our industry does a pretty good job attracting new talent, but we lose a lot of it after just a few years, so companies can … Read more

This article originally published on InsNerds. Like many of you, my path into the insurance field was not a contemplated career decision. I didn’t even really know what insurance was when I was in school. For better or worse, I fell into it. And by “fell”, I mean I fell for the ‘hey, everyone needs … Read more

This is the third article in this series. You can read the other two parts here: What We Learned at Dinner with Warren Buffett – Part 1 and Part 2. In reading Buffet’s letters, we found many gems that inform our opinions and beliefs about how to be successful in the industry. We wanted to … Read more

If you read our most recent article, “What we Learned at Dinner with Warren Buffet,” you’ll already know that Tony has truly earned the title Insurance Nerd after dreaming about hours long insurance conversations. After he woke up, we started this series to share Warren Buffet’s insurance industry wisdom from his letters. Last week, we talked … Read more

Recently, Carly and Tony received an amazing email from Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha himself, congratulating us for InsNerds.com, confessing that he’s a big fan of our efforts and inviting us on an all expenses-paid trip (on NetJets of course) to have dinner with him to discuss the industry. We had an amazing time over … Read more